ndnSIM

Installation guide - Ubuntu 16.04

In June 2019, installing ndnSIM caused problems since there was a problem with the latest commit from git clone https://github.com/named-data-ndnSIM/ns-3-dev.git ns-3

Some of the errors faced:

  visualizer/base.py", line 134
  print("Could not load plugin %r: %s" % (filename, str(ex)),
  file=sys.stderr)

Which can be fixed by editing the file in visualizer/base.py in line 134 from file=sys.stderr to file(sys.stderr) After fixing this error, another error saying:

visualizer/core.py", line 1875, in start
import sys
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object
This method of installation will not cause such errors.

Follow the steps below to get rid of these problems.

Installing dependencies

sudo apt install build-essential libsqlite3-dev libboost-all-dev libssl-dev git python-setuptools castxml
sudo apt install python-dev python-pygraphviz python-kiwi python-gnome2 ipython libcairo2-dev python3-gi libgirepository1.0-dev python-gi python-gi-cairo gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-goocanvas-2.0 python-pip
sudo pip install pygraphviz pycairo PyGObject pygccxml

Downloading ndnSIM source

git clone https://github.com/named-data/ndn-cxx.git ndn-cxx
git clone https://github.com/named-data-ndnSIM/pybindgen.git pybindgen
git clone https://github.com/named-data-ndnSIM/ns-3-dev.git ns-3

Since there are problems from the current commit, we need to clone from a specific commit.

cd ndnSIM/ns-3
git reset --hard 7c4662ff285290a9a10a27b6f6682e0678c29907

cd ndnSIM
git clone --recursive https://github.com/named-data-ndnSIM/ndnSIM.git ns-3/src/ndnSIM

Compiling and running ndnSIM

cd ndnSIM/ndn-cxx
./waf configure --enable-shared --disable-static
./waf
sudo ./waf install
sudo ldconfig
cd ndnSIM/ns-3
./waf configure --enable-examples
./waf

Simulating using ndnSIM

Using the examples already included ./waf --run=ndn-simple ./waf --run=ndn-simple --vis - run with visualizer NS_LOG=ndn.Consumer:ndn.Producer ./waf --run=ndn-simple --vis - run with visualizer & Logging NS_LOG=ndn.Consumer:ndn.Producer ./waf --run=ndn-simple --vis > debug.out 2>&1 - run with visualizer & Logging in separate file (debug.out)

Error encountered (unsolved-did not use vis):

Could not load icon applets-screenshooter due to missing gnomedesktop Python module ...... AttributeError: 'X11Display' object has no attribute 'get_primary_monitor'